Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-07-21
eooOL EEs m MONTREAL.

Times. Tie ''boodle" aldermen aud Messrs.
Moloney aud keenan, are, to all appearance,
thoroughly sick of their prolonged residence
in Montreal and will be heartily glad when
they can once more return to New York. The
useless, idle existence they are leading here
and the almost total lack OF amusement has a
Happening effect on their spirits. Day after
day they NAV be seen loafng around the
hotels, smoking cigars, and looking listless
and dissatisfied, with the exception OF Molo-
pey whose father is well known and universal
" respected here, and who has, therefore,
been received with open arms by the Irish.
None Of them have been received into society.
They are well liked, nevertheless, by everyone
with whom they come in contact aud their
Jolly, free-and- easy ways and royal disregard
Tor money make them great favorltes with the
employees at the hotels
Moloney is an especial favorite. His man
ners are good and he is regarded as a thor
ough gentleman In every respect. No matter
how worried he may be-and a man OF his ex'
.table disposition very often is-he has always
4 courteous word for the smallest bell boy In
The place and can decline an interview with
put offending the newspaper men. He has
been a changed man within the past six
months. He drinks absolutely nothing with
ii. exception OF ''pony" of brandy In about
tour times its bulk of apollinaris before din
ner, and never enters a barroom II he can pos
,ibly avoid 1t. The bartenders speak admir-
Ingly OF his capacity for standing liquor
He is a shrewd observer of what goes on
around him and takes keen interest
N local politics He seldom retires
bafora u or 2 in the NOR pinO hut sits
reading the New York papers, which he
pounces upon the moment they come in. The
items referring to himself or his fellow exiles
are sent to him marked, and he reads every
,ne of them carefully through. When, sitting
ZONE time absorbed in his newspapers, he
springs out OF his chair with a snort Of dis
yust, brushes the paper into his pocket, and
strides off in his nervous, hdgety way, you
nay bet with certainty that he has inst read
IN article in which IL is stated or limited that
Do is about to return to New York to turn
states evidence against the rest. No one
who knows Billy would put the slightest
redence in any such statement AS he said
,ne night to The Times correspondent: 81
ian go back TO New York whenever like, for
they have nothing against me, but II does not
,uit me just yet When / do 90 1t will be as
gentleman"
He rested his elbow on the table for a
minute or two TO support his head, and a
troubled expression came over his face. Then
he broke out so suddenly as to make the
listner start; ~ tell you man must be either
Is God Almighty made him or a mean, spirited
.ur." Then followed another pause, after
which be brought down his fist on the table
and said emphsticaly: zone thing you may
depend upon, will never be Carey" Then
be started off, and came back a moment
,fterward to apologize for his apparent rude
ness.
One OF his friends who came here a few
days ago said be would as soon suspect him OF
robbery as imagine that Billy was capable Of
splitting" on his friends. Little wonder"
remarked another of the party, "he was well
paid for holding his tongue"
at is not that which keeps MIN here away
from his family and friends" said the first
gentleman. IF he was never to get another
cent he would not 90 back IL his doing SO
would get his friends into trouble. Why, he
has an income OF $1,000 year and a house
that II sold would bring In enough to keep
him ia comfort here all his days. Besides, he
Is LAWYER by profession, and could make
comfortable income from that. 1t is not the
money he gets from New York that keeps him
from his lS-months-old child that he has new
or yet seen, aud keeps him living in the St.
Lawrence hall while he has a splendid house
In New York, and one he justly prides him
self on"
He has always one or two OF his boys with
him here, and his wife visits him occasionally.
His daughter and her husband spent some
weeks here recently. On these occasions he
brghtens up wonderfully aud Is quite another
man. His boys he is very proud Of, and they
are allowed to do practically what they please.
When his eldest son was here a short time
ago he met some of his friends playing In
theatrical company from Boston, and Mr.. Mo
loney extended to all Of them a cordial invita-
ton to supper at the hall after the play Sew
IN Of the actors accepted the invitation, and
the usually quiet neighborhood resounded
with song and chorus until o'clock in the
morning. "They are all quite SOBER" said
the waiter as he came down for more GUM
ness porter and cigars "but Billy will suffer
for this In the morning. He Is always upset
after thing like this" And sure enough he
was not visible till next evening.
Dempsey and De Lacy spent their morn
lngs loaiing around the rotunda Of the Wind
sor or seated in one of the chairs In front OF
the hall basking In the sun and watching the
people passing. At night they are often out
with 'thc boys" which designation is APP
piled to one Of the fastest sporting sets in the
.ity. They have not the same resources as
Moloney. and, have nothing to do, the temp
tations to drink are consequently much greater
than In this case. In the winter they amused
themselves in a variety of ways, such as
sleigh-riding and other winter sports Day
after da, they went down at the river watch
ing the fee, and were fortunate enough to
witness the great "shove." Since then they
have been very dull. with only some incident
like the O'Bren agitation or the visit Of .
New York friend to relieve the monotony of
existence. One evening at the Windsor hotel
a Montrealer told them he was going to
New York next day on visit, when Dempsey
broke out: IF you stay anv time there you
won't come back" a remark In which the
other heartily concurred, and added: "a
man who knows New York don't want to live
any where else" 'They are precious home
sick" said the Montrealcr afterward in re-
counting the incident, "but the way OF the
transgressor is hard"
keenan, keeps very much to himself and to
his family, and is very seldom seen IN public.
He might be out of town for weeks without
being missed. Although his name is well
known, very few people here know him even
by sight An idea Of how they fight shy Of
newspaper men is given by local paper
which sent q reporter to interview Dempsey
at the Windsor as to the truth Of the report
that be and sayles were short Of cash and
were about to start fashionable saloon on